Wine & Dine Wisconsin 2012 takes over the Delta Center Saturday and Sunday, and it's the perfect event for like-minded folks to gather together. Like, people who like cheese. People who like beer. People who like wine. People who like all of the above.

Repeated cuts to arts subsidies make Lee Blessing's "Chesapeake" — an alternately witty and overly clever one-actor play recalling the inflammatory culture wars from the 1980s and 1990s — as topical today as it was when it debuted in 1999. Featuring Matt Daniels and directed by Chris Flieller, an In Tandem Theatre production of "Chesapeake" opened over the weekend. | Feb. 23, 2014»Read Full Article

So maybe the climate is nothing like southern California. But Milwaukee can still celebrate the Academy Awards as a red-carpet affair.

The Iron Horse Hotel will transform from lobby to chic theater, complete with red carpet, for its first Oscar Viewing Party Sunday evening. Guests can partake from a specialty drink menu for the night or a small-plates menu (so you can continue to fit into that designer gown). | Feb. 23, 2014»Read Full Article

Banish winter and get ready for summer vacation with a visit to the Milwaukee RV Show Thursday through Sunday at the Exposition Center in Wisconsin State Fair Park, 8200 W. Greenfield Ave., West Allis.

Check out the new pop-up campers, truck campers, fifth wheels and more. Along with the latest in recreational vehicles, visitors can pick up information on campgrounds and resorts all over North America. | Feb. 23, 2014»Read Full Article

OK, so she didn't win. Miranda Levy still did what all of the finalists on "Project Runway" do. She returned to her hometown to create a new line of designs.

Levy will unveil her latest fashions for the first time since appearing on last year's season of "Project Runway" in her "Return to the Runway" show at 6 p.m. Friday at the Intercontinental Milwaukee, 139 E. Kilbourn Ave. | Feb. 23, 2014»Read Full Article

Our first clue to what's in store for us with "Anatole" — the latest in a string of impressive new musicals birthed by First Stage — comes before we even begin.

With handlebars representing his bike, the mouse-eared Rick Pendzich pedals his way on stage for the customary preshow announcements. He's almost immediately interrupted by a recording — conveying the same information in that antiseptic drone that's now common, as live curtain speeches become another casualty in this age of mechanically reproduced art. | Feb. 23, 2014»Read Full Article

Tip of the hat

Time to take out the tall, red-striped hats. Our favorite Mad Hatter, Dr. Seuss (also known as Theodor Seuss Geisel), would have turned 110 next Sunday, and there are a number of ways to celebrate without upsetting any fish. | Feb. 23, 2014»Read Full Article